6(3 GIUFFRIDA-RUGGERI & CHAKLADAR 



Slam, Cambodia, Aunam, and probably a portion of 

 Southern China were partially inhabited by wild Negritos, 

 who were gradually pushed to the mountains (he affirms 

 that in Burmah there are still some Negritos, who are 

 called Selung) and towards" the sea. It remains to be 

 known where they can have gone once they reached the 

 Chinese sea, because they are not to be found in the 

 coastal region ; it would be interesting to know now 

 whether the Negritos of the Philippines, are a transplanta- 

 tion of the continental Negritos, who at one time the 

 epoch cannot be precisely stated and this is hardly of any 

 importance held the southern zone of Asia ; besides, it 

 would be most important to ascertain whether the trans- 

 migrated Negritos have been followed by H. Asiatic ti-s 

 protomorphus. In fact, this last would have been able in 

 this way to acquire a meso-platyrrhine character more 

 accentuated than their own, whether on the continent or 

 in the islands, the platyrrhine feature being precisely a 

 conspicuous morphological character of the Negritos. 

 This solution has the advantage of doing without the 

 Indonesian type in the Philippines, which could have been 

 peopled in another way than Indonesia ; only in later 

 times the Malayan diffusion which has very little 

 anthropological importance has uniformly worked on 

 the coasts of all these insular territories, giving rise to an 

 extensive metamorphosis, which lends itself to various 

 interpretations. 1 



Nothing useful for Ethnology can be drawn from the 

 analytical works of Bean, who has been led astray by the 

 mirage of the identification of the individual morphological 



1 I recommend to the reader the useful work of SULLIVAN (L. R.), Racial Types 

 in the Philippine Islands. " Anthrop. Pap. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist." XX III, Part I, 

 New York, 1918. Th'e reader will also find here many series of natives (stature, 

 ceph. ind, and nas. ind.) which we have omitted on account of their uncertain 

 systematic collocation. 



